Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-31
Temperance Notes.

temperance Notes.
Madame Demorest was among the.
New York w. c. T. u. ladies who ap-
piled the other day for register in order
to vote.
The supreme court of Massachusetts
has decided that private clubs may seE
liquors to members without violating
the liquor laws.
The six leading colleges in Michigan
are overwhelmingly prohibition IN sen
timent. Each contains a large prohihi-
ton club comprised Of the leading
minds in the institution.
DR.. A. r. Schofeld, of London, com
pares the moderate drinking Of stimu-
lants to sailing on the outer circle 1T n
whirlpool, n somewhat exciting, bns
not a wise proceeding.
Prohibition sentiment is very ssrsag
in Colorado. Pueblo, the second city
in the state, has an anti-saloon govern
ment and many smaller towns haye
iuCai opium III lull IOTCc.
Tallahassee, the capital of FlorEsa,i IL
now dry" The license expired ON
Saturday, October l, and the Prohihi-
tionists have influenced the county
commissioners o to renew them.
The Petit Journal of Paris winds ny
an article on The Pay of WorkHsew''
with the admirable comment. sIHappy
the country where the drinking bar hiss
completely disappeared"
The Catholic Total Abstinence So
ciety, Of Salem, Mass, dedicated n
handsome statue to Father Matthew
lately. The reverend president Of thu
union of America, Rev. Thomas j..
Conaty, was the orator Of the day.
Mr.. Joseph Thomas, a devoted friend
of the temperance cause in Liverpool
has placed at the disposal Ct the IiveE-
pool reference library the whole Of hts
valuable collection Of the best stahelaN
works on temperance.
Mr.. Philip Armour has q sign uyD
over his head cashiers desk: '.Ko rigS~
rette smoking here;' the salutary s5fy8t
of which is said to be that IA OF %
couple Of hundred Office clerks not one
has continued in the habit
A series of meetings is being hsia M
Scotland TO protest against tho sysSeM
OF licensed vice in India and ths sc4e-
MES. Mrs. Josephine Butler, the gssab
apostle Of social purity, is one Of NJ
number OF distinguished speakers ppes-
ent.
The petition being prepared BY tAs-
temperance women of England, f0r
presentation TO the queen, asking th%5
the 5ar-rooms be closed on SuDAarSr
already weighs nearly = AsnarSD
pounds. and contains nearly . nsis10h
signatures.
There is a marked difference HsewSGas
the w. c. T. Union in OiaA aA& ~
pan. The officers and workers In I'm
former are American MissisaMS
while in the latter, the native vcxNSI.
take full control-preside, lecture, WRITE
anu PUBLISH ICaACtb, 0u0 NoNgy eG ~
enterprise successfully.
Mrs. S. V. Douglas recently spent
two weeks in Ulster county, New Ysrh,
under the auspices Of the County Pro-
hibition party. She delivered twafaS
lectures, all Of hich we're web sttena-
ed. and so well received that she
under promise to return this winter.
She has since lectured as F7sshipH,
Babylon, Sayvi!le and Sag Harb&
Long Island.
There were oyer 5, 900, 600, 600 cigars
manufactured in the United States IN
1886. In 1884 there we're . little ever
5000, 600, 900 made, and in 1880 8 little
over 1000, 600. 900. 1t NJ, therefore,
safe to assume that the use OF this
fascinating weed is not on the decrease,
and that the anti-tObacco sOoiety ~ 1sA
making much hsadway.-ChkSgDe
Tribune.